Best Box Sets of 2019
A dubious category, if ever there was one: best box sets of 2019? Sounds like something made up as an excuse to shout about some musical peccadillo that doesn't fit into any other category, if you ask me? You betcha, mate! Now, without wishing to start a religious war or equivalent, I have to start by saying that, in general I am resistant to the idea of the box set. It seems to me it's no different from buying books by the yard to populate a library in a house where none of the books is actually read. The less said about that, the better. Box sets often suffer from two problems. For starters they often collect together everything by an artist, regardless of merit, and let's face it there is no artist, I would argue, that produced album after album of equal brilliance. (No, not even those four blokes, so leave it out!) The other failing is that they are the musical "five yards of books", a sort of coffee table "look at this, I'm really cool...